People v. Rambersed

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Dominic Massaro, J.), rendered January 30, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 2V2 to 5 years and 1 year, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly seated two prospective jurors who had been challenged by defendant. The court’s finding of prima facie discrimination was proper since the record shows, inter alia, that jurors with similar backgrounds as these Caucasian…